Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal attends grand opening ceremony of
the Georgia Health Sciences College of Dental Medicine’s new facility, one of
the largest new dental clinical facilities and class sizes in the country. The
five-story, 269,133 square-foot building houses 316 clinical operatories, the
college’s eight residency programs, two large clinics for junior and senior
dental students, simulation labs, an expanded faculty practice, the College of
Allied Health Sciences’ dental hygiene program and an operating room and
recovery unit for outpatient surgery.[1]
The growth will help fill a pressing need for dentists in
Georgia, which ranks 48th in the country for dentists per 100,000 residents.[2] Approximately 260 patients are treated in the
building each day. The expanded clinical space will enable a 61 percent
increase in dental students per class (to 400 total) and a 30 percent increase
in faculty by 2016. The number of dental
residencies will increase 64 percent by 2013.
The GHSU College of Dental Medicine typically recruits over
a third of its students from dental health shortage areas. Almost half of 2010
graduates entered residency programs upon graduation, which should help
increase the number of dental specialists and general dentists with advanced
training who practice in Georgia. GHSU
alumni are found in 130 of 159 counties in Georgia.
The building has been recognized as the Best Higher
Education/Research Project for 2011 from ENR Southeast, an industry magazine
focused on construction news and trends because it is the first on the GHSU
campus to be LEED-certified, denoting leadership in energy and environmental
design. An Education Commons, proposed
for construction adjacent to the new building, would provide additional
classroom space for GHSU dental and medical students.
And the nicest part of GHSU’s grand opening is our daughter
(above) being a freshman dental student.
Novy Scheinfeld, DDS, PC
290 Carpenter Drive, 200A
Atlanta (Sandy Springs), GA 30328
404-256-3620
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[1] For more information about the
building call the Dean’s Office at 706-721-2117 or visit www.georgiahealth.edu/sod/expansion/.
[2] U.S. Department of Labor estimates
indicate Georgia needs to fill an average of 160 dental positions per year.
Nearly one in seven Georgia counties lacks a dentist.
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